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didn’t say he was the best side-kick. He was just the only friend that I had in this life. It was my own fault for getting into this situation, and I had to think of a way out. There was screaming for my life, there was giving up, and there was the wall. The red sign glared at me, but so were the fists of rage about to pound into my scrawny body. I took off screaming, put one foot on the fence, and placed my hands on the tall fence. I hoisted myself to the top, using all of my strength. The…

brightened up considerably after the minor spat in the kitchen, but when he went to bed, he could hear her crying through the feeble walls. His hands tingled with the desire to punch his…

The Axe Effect advertisement, created by the Axe corporation, takes place in a dark and light contrasted locker room. The lockers are navy blue color. One of the lockers are open at the bottom. There is a man with a towel around his waist in front of the lockers. His body is half skinny and half obese. He seems to be spraying Axe deodorant on his body.The skinny man is very handsome and it can be inquired just from the context of the picture that the obese man is not as appealing as the skinny…

What’s the point of stereotypes? To think some way of someone without really knowing them. To classify a person or people into a group just because of their gender or what they look like. Should all women be stay at home mothers? Should all men have white collared jobs and have to provide for their family? The more people don’t fit the categories that others put them into the better, because to me, it makes them more interesting. The point of getting to know someone is to find out what they’re…

As seen in Figure 2, the calendar consists of two pieces of paper which I taped to the wall next to my desk. As an object, it can be interpreted as an icon, in accordance with Peirce’s categories, which defines an icon as a sign that “resembles its conceptual object in certain ways”, duplicating this properties and principles (Huhtamo, “Basic…

She stared at the journal a little while longer, then kicked it again, sending it skidding to the opposite wall, where it fell open, the quill that she had left inside sitting there, still glistening with ink, despite not having been dipped in an inkwell for several hours. She wanted to run, she wanted to hide. She wanted to do everything, even confess, if that…

“I would prefer not to,” is a phrase made famous from Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener. This story is told from an anonymous lawyer’s perspective about the addition of Bartleby to his firm as a scrivener, and Bartleby’s peculiar attitude and mannerisms at the workplace. Throughout the short story, the lawyer continues to ask Bartleby to do jobs for him and he replies with, “I would prefer not to.” It is later found out that on the weekend, the lawyer made a stop by his office and…

Annette had casually dismissed the guard from his duty of watching over Leonard in his cell. She stated, “My parents are having dinner in the dining hall, so that way isn 't possible, but there is at the end of the corridor a back way, it leads through the sewers, and we will get out at Denna 's Diner.” Leonard looked at her and responded, “I don 't see a princess dressed the way you are dressed going very far in the sewers, don 't you think your gown will get in the way and ruined?” Annette…

down the "Invisible Wall", was the war. When each side lost family members from the war, it brought the two sides together and they forgot their about their differences. Another event that broke the invisible wall down was when the Germans surrendered and the war ended. The two sides came together to celebrate and the bitterness and animosity that had existed between the two sides disappeared. Harry noticed that, "The war, it seemed, had almost completely destroyed the invisible wall that had…

Amanda Perring carefully stepped off the bright yellow school bus onto the clean, asphalt driveway leading to her parent’s garage. Her house was a classic, one story suburb on the outskirts of Los Angeles, located in middle class neighborhood where no one had to worry about money but there wasn't much extra to spend. Her mother and father were both respected doctors and were almost never home when Amanda was. Every day on the bus, she would sit at the very back with no one else, completely…